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20190322_170645 Hopscotch: Mirrors

20190322_170638 Hopscotch: Mirrors

20190322_165030 E and R in the Hopscotch ball pit

Date: 05/13/2019
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20190322_164928 E and R in the Hopscotch ball pit

Date: 03/22/2019
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Total lunar eclipse of January 20, 2019

This year I was lucky enough to see the total lunar eclipse that took place on January 20, 2019. I attempted to view a full Moon eclipse twice before in recent years -- in September of 2015 and January of 2018 -- and I could not see it either time, since clouds helpfully moved in just in time for the totality.

This time not only the sky was clear, the Moon was also high enough in the sky that we could view it from our frontyard, instead of having to drive somewhere to find a clear, unobstructed view of the horizon.

I took some pictures of the eclipse with my phone camera. Without flash, the camera "autocorrected" the crescent of the Moon to a circle. With a flash, however, it captured the crescent! Perhaps the exposure time was short enough that the camera didn't have time to "autocorrect". The flash turned the sky the rusty color. Someone commented that this looked like an image taken by a Mars rover.

Date: 02/09/2019

Owner: Elze

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20190120_234738 Moon coming out of eclipse

After the total eclipse ended, the shadow of the Earth started coming off of the left side of the Moon. Oddly (or not, for those who understand such things), though the shadow of the Earth came up on the Moon from "below", it came off "to t

Date: 01/20/2019

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20190120_224531 Full Moon eclipse

A picture I took of the total lunar eclipse of January 20, 2019 with my phone camera. As unsuitable as they are for photography of something as distant and dim as the Moon during the eclipse, I'm still pleased how it turned out.

Date: 01/20/2019

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20190120_222230 Partial Moon eclipse

This year I was lucky enough to see the total lunar eclipse of January 20, 2019. I took some pictures of it with my phone. Without flash, the camera "autocorrected" the crescent of the Moon to a circle. With a flash, though, it captured the cres

Date: 01/20/2019

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20190120_220751 Boiling water in a metal cup on Esbit stove

To keep kids occupied during lunar eclipse, while the Moon interminably slowly shrinks from a shiny ball to a red eye: boil water in a military style metal cup on an Esbit stove in your driveway. Make instant coffee in that cup and pass it around.